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Melancholy, original title Melancholia I, is a 1995 novel by the Norwegian writer Jon Fosse. It is about the Norwegian painter Lars Hertervig (1830–1902) and his time as a young student in Düsseldorf, where he, agonised by unrequited love and doubt in his art, is driven toward a mental breakdown.
1 de ene. de 2001 · The novel unfolds through a fragmented structure, mirroring the disjointed nature of memory, and the fractured state of the mind affected by melancholia. Fosse confronts the existential abyss with unflinching honesty, he actually holds up a mirror, urging the reader to gaze into the abyss, hoping that, in doing so, he may glimpse a ...
The novel is divided into three parts, with the first part, the longest, taking place over the course of a single day in Düsseldorf. Hertervig is staying as a boarder with a widow, Mrs Winckelmann who has a daughter, Helene, aged fifteen.
Melancholy is a fictional, wild and feverish invocation of nineteenth-century Norwegian artist Lars Hertervig, who painted light-bathed landscapes, suffered a mental breakdown and died poor in 1902. The winner of the Melsom and Sunnmøre Prizes, it is considered one of the greatest works of an author hailed as “the Beckett of the century ...
1 de nov. de 2006 · Paperback – November 1, 2006. by Jon Fosse (Author), Grethe Kvernes (Translator), Damion Searls (Translator) 3.8 13 ratings. See all formats and editions. Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature for 2023.
Melancholy. Jon Fosse. Dalkey Archive Press, 2006 - Fiction - 284 pages. Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature for 2023. "Melancholy" takes us deep inside a painter's fragile consciousness,...
Melancholy I-II is a fictional invocation of the nineteenth-century Norwegian artist Lars Hertervig, who painted luminous landscapes, suffered mental illness and died poor in 1902. In this wild, feverish narrative, Jon Fosse delves into Hertervig’s mind as the events of one day precipitate his mental breakdown.
